Economic advice from Robert Reich:

[milestogo]

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[CitizenZero]

1. Right On

I like Reich a lot. He is smart and on target, as usual.

[milestogo]

2. Yes he is.

And this is the first I've heard about the UPS strike. That could have a huge impact.

[Joinfortmill]

3. This is such a 'no brainer', but people are such fucks...

[Ford_Prefect]

4. Shhhhh don't tell the MSM. They need a good catastrophe to hang on Biden.

[orangecrush]

5. K&R

[czarjak]

6. Tis better to give than to receive.

A certain Book says so anyway.

[gademocrat7]

7. K&R!

[Uncle Joe]

8. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread milestogo

[wnylib]

9. Billionaires and multi millionaires of today

are the counts, dukes, earls, and barons of the Middle Ages. They protect their holdings through the laws passed by their hired politicians and expect the general population to serve them and pay homage to them.

Their gated communities are castle fortresses. Media and law enforcement are their servants.

[LittleGirl]

31. Exactly! eom

[Warpy]

10. You know what's worse than one blind Twitter link?

Multiple blind Twitter links.

A little discussion would be nice. That shitpile of a site takes forever to load.

While I'd like to know his advice, I might not live long enough for all that stuff to load.

[milestogo]

11. You need more RAM in your computer.

[erronis]

13. I've got 64GB ram and 3.5TB SSD. Still can't load twitter since I don't want to visit

the musky site.

Thanks for not bothering to take the time to post some real content instead of cut-n-paste links.

[Warpy]

14. My setup isn't that impressive but I feel the same

There's a reason my account died of neglect.

It does take forever to load all their crap before any post loads. If it's not video, I tend to skip it if posters can't be bothered to put in text or discussion.

[CaptainTruth]

15. Musk has made that problem worse, he's shut down a bunch of their content servers.

I've seen estimates of up to 1/3. He's losing money so fast he can't pay the bills. So, depending on your ISP, where you are in their distribution network, & your connection type (fiber, I presume?) Twitter might have gotten significantly slower for you over the past few months.

[Warpy]

16. It just CRAWLS

I wondered about shutting their servers down because it has gotten worse.

It's one reason I bark at people who post a whole line of links and no content, that and the fact that by the time they post the last link, the first one generally doesn't work any more.

If you're going to copy and paste a link, why not copy and paste the text, especially if you don't want to comment on it?

[CaptainTruth]

37. I agree 100%. It's not hard to copy/paste text.

[Warpy]

38. Thanks, everybody else seems to disagree

and think naked Twitter links are valid posts.

I say p'tooey. I'm having a rude day.

[Elessar Zappa]

17. I can see the content in the post and I don't have a Twitter account.

[Warpy]

19. Yeah, a clickbait subject line and 4 blind links

That's the content.

[Elessar Zappa]

20. No, I can see the content on the tweet, not just links.

[Celerity]

23. +1

[They_Live]

27. me also. n/t

[hunter]

29. Here's what I see:

Economic advice from Robert Reich:

Link to tweet



Link to tweet



Link to tweet



Link to tweet

I've blacklisted all things twitter as spam.

[ProfessorGAC]

34. What Browser Do You Use?

If I use Chrome, I see the tweets.
If I use DuckDuckGo, I don't. Since star members don't see ads at DU, I use Chrome for that. DDG to block ads & pop ups for everything else.
I'm asking because I'm curious as to why the tweets pop up on one browser but not the other. Maybe the sane thing is happening to you!

[hunter]

36. I use a generic Chromium browser.

I've specifically blocked all things twitter because it irritates me.

If I click on a twitter link I get an "Are you sure you want to go there?" message. If I say "yes" it opens in an incognito window.

Twitter doesn't like to serve embedded content if certain privacy features are enabled, as they are in the DuckDuckGo browser extension.

[Septua]

12. "MAGA Republicans are holding the economy hostage...

..in order to force deeply unpopular cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and other key programs...They don't actually care about the national debt."

"By the way, a tax of up to 5% on the world’s multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise $1.7 trillion/year."

It's all about greed and control...

[Talitha]

18. K&R

[Stuart G]

21. K & R

[calimary]

22. Yep. Sums it up.

[ck4829]

24. K&R

[onlyadream]

25. And the Daily Show got it wrong too

They had Desi Dydic explain it to us and she said it was about borrowing more money, not paying for what was already borrowed. At least that’s what I remember, because when I heard that, I started doubting myself.

[spanone]

26. The right has learned that lies are easily believed and easily told.

...and they have a huge media echo chamber.

[KS Toronado]

28. Waited over 10 minutes to load

none showed up.

[Maraya1969]

30. Too bad the Dems didn't rename "Raising the Debt ceiling" to "Paying out bills"

or something that actually seems like what really happens. I bet it was a republican that changed the name to "raising the debt ceiling"

[Orrex]

33. Perhaps the one enduring trait of Democrats

is their utter inability to frame a message. Republikkkans distill their ideas down to five-syllable soundbytes, to which Democrats reply with five-page treatises on the state of things, with extensive footnotes, endnotes, vague citations and oblique allusions to previous statements.

Democratic ideals are simply better and are universally more popular than the Republikkkan agenda, but Dems have no ability to crystalize their platform in any way that resonates with people.

[Orrex]

32. One amazing thing that I see again and again...

Is that Republikkkan drones "spontaneously" start parroting the same talking points, all of them insisting that they don't watch Fux Noise or suckle at any other Reichwing propaganda nozzles, yet they all regurgitate the same bullshit more or less verbatim.

Either they all really do have just one tiny brain among them (a likely possibility), or they are in fact getting their marching orders from their KKKonservative hate media and dutifully bleating their nonsense into the ether.


I'm not one for censoring unpleasant speech, but would it be asking too much to staple KKKonservatives' lips shut and super glue their fingers together for a few decades?

[FakeNoose]

35. The 4th tweet is deceiving

Robert Reich @RBReich

By the way, a tax of up to 5% on the world’s multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise $1.7 trillion/year.
That would be enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty and fund a global plan to end hunger.
We can't afford NOT to tax the rich.

7:05 PM · Jan 20, 2023

It may be true, but Uncle Sam has no right to tax the world's ultra-wealthy. Our government can only tax America's wealthiest, and they SHOULD be willing to pay their fair share. It's due to Uncle Sam's wealth redistribution policies for the last 40 years that has made these people incredibly rich. A 5% tax on their wealth would be only fair.